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Despite the ubiquity of headphones these days, a new study indicates hearing loss among American is in decline. Our host speaks with the study's co-author, audiologist Gregory Flamme.

Covered in ice and filled with bubbling lava, the Antarctic volcano Mount Erebus is the perfect proxy for an alien world. That's why NASA's Aaron Curtis travels there to test space exploration robots.

The last time the U.S. ranked No. 1 in a key economic index was 2008. Key issues cited in the 2016 report: America's problems with its infrastructure, health and primary education systems.

Rice farming is rare in the Northeast U.S. But one Gambian-born farmer is trying to make a go of it in New York's Hudson Valley.

The Supreme Court rules that prison inmates have a constitutional right to not be put in Supermax prisons if it's not necessary. Supermax is an extremely restricted environment, with virtually no human contact. The High Court has approved Ohio's program of reviews for deciding whether a given inmate's crime is serious enough to merit such restrictive confinement.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., traveled to the southern border of Turkey to observe the flow of humanitarian aid to victims of the civil war in neighboring Syria.

Ten years ago today, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover successfully commenced its mission to explore the possibility of life on mars. Here's what it has discovered.

The opposition movement in Iran includes students, women, exiles, and others. Ray Takeyh of the Council on Foreign Relations describes the Iranian government's "quarantine" strategy for curtailing opposition in the country rather than a sledgehammer strategy.

The number of birds in America's grasslands and shorelines has declined by a third in the last 50 years, according to a new report. But birds are staging a comeback in wetlands.

A bill that would allow concealed weapons to be carried on West Virginia college campuses passed by a landslide in the state's House of Delegates. It heads to the desk of Republican Gov. Jim Justice.